Rowe, Laura - Counting Unrest: Physical Manifestations of Unrest and Their Relationship to Admiralty Perception
Keywords: Board of Admiralty | Naval Discipline Act (NDA)
ISFWWS-Keywords: Naval Warfare | Britain | Home fronts | Society
Abstract: By mid-1917 the Board of Admiralty had received a number of worrying reports about unrest amongst the men, as a result of which they launched a number of enquiries to investigate the extent of the problem. The conclusions Their Lordships drew were ambiguous in a number of r…

Grove, Eric - Climax in the Baltic: The German Maritime Offensive in the Gulf of Riga in October 1917
Keywords: German Maritime | Gulf of Riga | Russia
ISFWWS-Keywords: Russian Front | Naval Warfare | Germany | Russia | Military organisation of combat
Abstract: On 17 October 1917, only three weeks before the Bolsheviks seized power in Petrograd on 7 November, an engagement occurred in the Gulf of Riga between the German dreadnought battleships
Konig and
Kronprinz and three Russian capital ships of the previous generation, the pre-dreadnought battleships
Slava and
Grazhdanin and the ar…

Hewitt, Nick - ‘Weary Waiting is Hard Indeed’: The Grand Fleet after Jutland
Keywords: Grand Fleet | Jutland | Western Front
ISFWWS-Keywords: Naval Warfare | Britain | Germany | Home fronts | Science, Technology, and Medicine
Abstract: The Grand Fleet is defined as the capital ships based at Scapa Flow and Rosyth and supporting elements based at harbours along the British East Coast. This chapter look at changes in strategic command and direction which were made during the period, plans to break the strategic d…

Little, Branden - Humanitarian Relief in Europe and the Analogue of War, 1914–1918
Keywords: American Red Cross (ARC) | Belgium | First World War | Humanitarian relief | Rockefeller Foundation (RF) | war in Europe
ISFWWS-Keywords: The United States of America | Economy | Belgium | Medicine | Violence against civilians | International Relations during the War | Politics | Naval Warfare | Women and War
Abstract: Foremost among the scores of Great War-era American organizations mobilized to deliver life-sustaining aid to Europe in the form of food, clot…

Paulin, C. - German War Plans against Denmark 1916–1918
Keywords: bureaucratic quarrels | Denmark | German war plans
ISFWWS-Keywords: Germany | Scandinavia | The Military and Naval War | Politics | Naval Warfare | Britain | International Relations during the War
Abstract: This chapter firstly uncovers
wie es eigentlich gewesen regarding the planning and the German-Danish foreign policy relations. Secondly, it explores why the plans did not materialize. Historical analysis often runs the risk of getting deterministic because it i…

Klinkert, W. -
Fall K. German Offensive Plans against the Netherlands 1916–1918
Keywords: army leadership | Dutch neutrality | Netherlands | Operationsentwurf Fall K
ISFWWS-Keywords: Germany | Netherlands | International Relations during the War | Naval Warfare | Britain
Abstract: This chapter is divided into the following parts: 1914, when the fortified positions take shape, 1915, when the tension rose, 1916, when the Operationsentwurf Fall K took form, 1917, when attack on the Netherlands was planned and 1918, which …

Rowe, Laura - “Their Lordships Regret That …”: Admiralty Perceptions of and Responses to Allegations of Lower Deck Disquiet
Keywords: 1917 Loyal Appeal | Battle Squadrons | Board of Admiralty | Pre-war | Royal Navy (RN)
ISFWWS-Keywords: Britain | Naval Warfare | Economy | Society | Politics
Abstract: By its very nature 'unrest' is both a symptom and the cause of the disease. It can only be detected once it has actually occurred, and moves, if unchecked, from the invisible to the disastrous in a comparatively short space of time. The maj…

Minohara, Tosh; Hon, Tze-ki; Dawley, Evan - Japan and the Wider World in the Decade of the Great War: Introduction
ISFWWS-Keywords: Asia | Naval Warfare | Politics | Economy | The French and British Empires | International Relations during the War | Pre-war period | The United States of America | Legacy | Russia | Gender | Society | Scandinavia | Science, Technology, and Medicine | Australia | New Zealand | The Ottoman Empire and the Middle East | Poland
The Decade of the Great War Tosh Minohara , Tze-ki Hon and Evan Dawley , (2014)
Publication Editor: Brill, The Netherlands, 2014
e-ISBN: 978900…